A string of yachts retired on the first night of the bluewater classic, after intense weather forced a number of the leaders to turn back, including eight-time line honours victor and defending champion Wild Oats Eleven.
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Background: The 71st edition of the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race starts December 26 in Sydney Harbor, taking an entry list of 109 boats along the 628 nautical mile course to Hobart that is often described as the most grueling long ocean race in the world. Read told the Race Director at the Cruising Yacht Club in Sydney it was all over.
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When Comanche came to its destination in calm conditions at the River Derwent at 9:58 p.m. local time, Rambler was fighting off Australian yacht Ragamuffin in the battle for second place.
Race debutant Rambler, an 88-footer owned by US businessman George David, led the field from another American vessel, Jim and Kristy Clark’s Comanche.
Rambler off Sydney during Day 1 of the 2015 Sydney Hobart Yacht Race.
Wild Rose’s navigator Jennifer Wells said on Tuesday that after a calm Bass Strait crossing with little wind when the most excitement came from spotting sharks, Wild Rose’s speed had picked up down Tasmania’s east coast.
Rambler slid further behind and saw its hope of line honors fade while it remained in contention to win the overall race prize on handicap, which factors in a yacht’s size.
It comes after U.S. supermaxi Comanche took the line honours victory overnight.
Not since 2009 had a foreign boat won line honours – that being, the New Zealand registered Alfa Romeo owned by New Zealander Neville Crichton who lives in Sydney. “We think we can get to Hobart safely”, Read said.
Meanwhile, the German yacht Haspa Hamburg rejoined the race Monday, a day after pulling into the coastal town of Eden to make repairs.
In third place some 46 nautical miles off the pace is Australian supermaxi Ragamuffin, with a 20 nautical mile margin over Italian-flagged Maserati.
“We were sailing on starboard tack from the start and three boats got locked together – we were in the middle with nowhere to go”, Lupa’s tactician Laurent Pages said.
Last year’s line honours victor Wild Oats XI had initially led in the moments after the starter’s horn blew, but was overtaken by Perpetual Loyal before Comanche took the lead after unfurling her big spinnaker.
Last year’s victor, 43-foot Wild Rose, with Alexandra Headland’s Andrew and Samantha Scott in the crew, are now out of the running for a successful defence of the title.
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After making it back to Sydney, a shattered Wild Oats XI skipper Mark Richards was philosophical about retiring for the first time in the boat’s 10-year history.
